In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked then CCP Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao as the world's most powerful person of the year.
In June 1950, the Agrarian Reform Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated, and land reform rolled out across rural areas nationwide. Although the original intent was to distribute landlords' land to poor peasants, in actual implementation it evolved into a bloody and violent plundering feast, with numerous landlords stripped of their land and killed. Death tolls estimated by various scholars range between 200,000 and 2 million.
Hu Jintao was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu, in 1942, during the chaotic years of the War of Resistance. When he was 7 years old, his mother died of illness, and his father, unable to support them, sent him and his sister to be raised by his aunt, enduring a childhood marked by war and the hardships of living under someone else's roof.